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>Wake up, People! The government is not here to fix your problems. And private firms with monopoly power aren't either.
by pachydermic 11y ago
>Wake up, People! The government is not here to fix your problems.
And private firms with monopoly power aren't either.
- jMyles 11y agoWell, to use the current example, the monopoly can be broken with buildouts of wireless mesh networking. By contrast, government intervention might well make wireless mesh networking, as a methodology for reconstructing the internet, far less plausible.
- guelo 11y agoNo, wireless mesh networking is never going to displace fiber providers.
- jMyles 11y agoFor final mile applications, I assert that it will. For longer transit, I agree.
- rrmm 11y agoEither can exert good and bad influences. Neither business nor government is your friend. Both can be large and unwieldy, and large entities often step on smaller ones even if inadvertently. Unfortunately, we just have to be vigilant and exert our own influence to push things in a favorable direction. No one else will.
- jMyles 11y agoOne of them claims the authority to use violence to coerce you. I tend to be more skeptical of that one.
- jeremyt 11y agoPrivate firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government. The Comcast "monopoly" is in the process of falling apart, on one side from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan.
- anon987 11y agoOh, so your suggestion is to just wait it out and good things will come?
- masklinn 11y ago> Private firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government. Ma Bell was a monopoly long before the government tried to reign it in.
- starnixgod 11y agoThe government birthed the Ma Bell monopoly with the Willis Graham Act.
- masklinn 11y agoYou're completely off your rocker. The Willis Graham Act nullified the Kingsbury Commitment by which the government had tried to stop the unfettered expansion of Ma Bell, since it hadn't actually worked the government shifted to trying to regulate Ma Bell itself through the ICC (and the FCC a few years later).
- st3v3r 11y ago"The Comcast "monopoly" is in the process of falling apart, on one side from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu" And what happens to that threat when Comcast "accidentally" blocks them for an extended period of time? "and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan." Which are taking their sweet ass time to find their way to consumers.
- jeremyt 11y agoWhich are taking their sweet ass time to find their way to consumers. ...because of government red tape.
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